Ability to plan at age 8

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I was looking through my records and found this gem:

I have vague memories of this. It was because the "fun" activity was never really fun for me, because of all the noise and stuff. I preferred the study hall because it would be quiet and I could become engrossed in something I liked to read. I remember being frustrated that because I was good I had to go to the "fun" activity, and could not go to study hall, ensuring there was a perverse incentive to "be bad."

Very interesting......

I don't mean to hijack this thread by sharing my own life experiences, but the concept of planning "cunning" or just "smart" ideas rang very true for me. In recent times, I've been having talks with my mother about what I was like in my younger years. I still remember certain things pretty well even to this day. In short, one of these instances involved me pretending to do my times tables like a good little 8-or-so-year-old boy, I had them written down on a small piece of paper and was pacing up and down the hallway (at the end of the hallway was my parents' room - my target). My mum asked me what I was doing, so I simply said "memorising my times tables". Simple, mum's happy. Then, I continued on to my target. I went into dad's bedside drawer, found his wallet and proceeded to write down all the numbers I needed to use his credit card online (another story in itself). So that's the short of it. And, I got away with it. But, all these years later, I have since built up the courage (I suppose) to reveal to my parents that it was in fact me who committed that heinous crime... Anyway, stuff like that would go on at the "innocent" age of around 8.

Your post was quite pertinent to the thread. Mine should have been.

I would think most 8 year olds can plan like that in order to get out of things like beneficii talks about?

O-GOD!! Does this bring back memories. This remind me of when I was in special ED. In my special ED class, there was this "time out" box you had to go to when you did something inappropriate. The thing was. I like doing to that box. It was private and I could stim to my hearts content. So ya! I did a lot of inappropriate things. Minor things like belching in class. I would do them in precising timed intervals. So I could get the breaks I needed from being in the classroom surrounded by the other students. The teacher and the other student would shame me for it. But since I never really had any friends in school. I never really felt like I had anything to lose.

You know that there are people in this world, who would prefer to live there lives in prison. Because some people think that the living conditions in prison are better then they are being a free man. There are people out there that will commit crimes, just for the sole purpose of getting sent back to prison.

This.

My mom used to put me in time out as a punishment. She never realized that I actually enjoyed it. Sitting alone, fantasizing in my head- what's not to like? While I didn't misbehave just to get time out, I would act dejected when I received one so that she wouldn't wise up and switch to something else.